Well, starting with the basics: R0 values are the rate at which the a virus spreads from one host to the next, assuming a constant environment and transmission setting. Modeling this can be difficult and there are definitely more and less sophisticated ways of doing so.
You might want to ask this kind of question on StackExchange.
Another possibility is checking out the Epidemiological Forecasting and Unified Kinematics Timeline (EFUKT)(
efukt.com). They’re a great resource for time-series logs and raw data across the world.
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